Research Software Engineering Day 2025

4 December 2025
Thermotechnical Institute, Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, Heverlee

This year’s edition aims to further strengthen and inspire the Belgian Research Software Engineering Community (BE-RSE). The event serves as a platform to exchange best practices around research software that can advance scientific research.

ELIXIR Belgium Consortium meeting 2025

28 October 2025
Het Rustpunt, Burgstraat 110-116, Ghent

The next ELIXIR Belgium Consortium Meeting will bring together both FWO-IRI project partners and the wider Belgian ELIXIR community for a day of updates, discussions, and collaboration.

ELIXIR in Brazil - Rio de Janeiro/RJ

This 4 courses will be offered in Brazil, during a 3 days event.

Students can choose up to 2 courses to folow, and spend all 3 days with us. Just keep an eye on dates and duration.

  • Introduction to Git and GitHub
  • Research Data Management
  • Train-the-Trainer Course
  • Training Material: FAIR by Design & Hackathon

Register here >>

Organized by VIB Training and Conferences and ELIXIR Belgium

ELIXIR in Brazil - Natal/RN

This 4 courses will be offered in Brazil, during a 3 days event.

Students can choose up to 2 courses to folow, and spend all 3 days with us. Just keep an eye on dates and duration.

  • Introduction to Git and GitHub
  • Research Data Management
  • Train-the-Trainer Course
  • Training Material: FAIR by Design & Hackathon

Register here >>

Organized by VIB Training and Conferences and ELIXIR Belgium

Strategic use of generative AI

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how we work, communicate, and conduct research. For researchers, support staff, and professionals across disciplines, understanding how to strategically use tools like ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) is becoming essential.

This introductory training is designed to equip participants with a foundational understanding of generative AI, its practical applications, and its limitations.

 

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Strategic use of generative AI

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how we work, communicate, and conduct research. For researchers, support staff, and professionals across disciplines, understanding how to strategically use tools like ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) is becoming essential.

This introductory training is designed to equip participants with a foundational understanding of generative AI, its practical applications, and its limitations.

 

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Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM) in Life Sciences

Effective research data management (RDM) is more than just a compliance requirement - it's a practical tool that simplifies your workflow, strengthens your research, and enhances the impact of your publications. This training is designed to help researchers integrate RDM practices into their projects from the outset, always keeping the publication process in mind. 

 

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Functional analysis: the biology behind the genes

With the advances in technology, understanding the volume of information and giving it meaning is becoming increasingly challenging. We will utilize Gene Ontology and Gene enrichment, as well as Pathways, to interpret our data and unravel the meaning of our gene set. This introductory course will elucidate the biology behind the gene and clarify what your data means.

 

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Introduction to Docker and Apptainer: reproducible and automated data analysis

The container workshop will provide an introduction to Docker and Apptainer, which are great components for achieving the portability and reproducibility of your analysis.

 

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Introduction to HPC: structure and practice

In this half-day introduction, you will have the opportunity to know a bit more about the structure of the HPC (tiers), what resources you have available, and most importantly, how to use and navigate the HPC. 

In this course, you will learn the differences and similarities between

  • VSC (Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum) instances in Gent and Leuven
  • VIB Data Core
  • And a glimpse of what you could find beyond.

 

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